1st Edition
Maternal Fictions Writing the Mother in Indian Women’s Fiction
Introduction: Of Motherhood, Metaphor and Materiality
Chapter 1
Reluctant Mothers? : Maternal Subjectivity and Ambivalence
Chapter 2
Cast(e)ing Motherhood: Caste, Marginality and Maternal Agency
Chapter 3
Mothering Daughters: Vicissitudes of Mother–Daughter Relationships
Chapter 4
Motherhood and Diaspora: Remembering and Remaking Home
Chapter 5
Maternal Non-mothers: Motherhood Beyond Biology
Coda
Moving the Maternal: Towards Solidarity
Biography
Indrani Karmakar is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany and prior to that, she was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her works have previously appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Wasafiri, and she is the co-author of Storying Relationships: Young British Muslims Speak and Write about Sex and Love (2021).
